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Postgraduate

Research Supervision

Research supervision is offered by the Institute's academic staff, in collaboration with specialists at another institution where appropriate.

The Institute's research strength lies in its combination of the study of several language fields: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Its academic staff specialise in literature, cultural studies, history of ideas and comparatives studies: the city (especially Berlin, Trieste), borders, the body, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, feminism, women's writing, Jewish writing, exile writing, children's literature, etc. Because of its function as a centre for academic events in European culture, the Institute has national and international contacts with researchers in its fields. We are thus particularly well placed to offer supervision for projects that cross national and disciplinary boundaries.

Research Interests

The research interests of the Institute's academic staff are detailed here.

Projects recently undertaken by research students at the Institute include:

  • Reading Clarice Lispector through the work of Toni Morrison and Bessie Head (with the Department of English, Birkbeck and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, KCL)
  • The cultural re-cycling of Spanish historical women: Juana la Loca and Mariana Pineda
  • Memory and the city in the Chilean transition to democracy
  • The role of the mid-eighteenth-century German court in the development of the 'ballet d'action'
  • The polarization of surface and depth in Heinrich Heine's Buch der Lieder
  • Martin Heidegger as a reader of Rilke
  • Hölderlin's and Celan's Schizopoetics
  • The relationship between Richard Gerstl and Arnold Schönberg
  • The generation of '68 and the politics of remembrance

Enquiries about research supervision should be addressed to the Director, Professor Bill Marshall, sending a cv and a research proposal (william.marshall@sas.ac.uk).